Consultant, Apprenda

January 2010 - April 2013

Consultant, Reader’s Digest Association

January 2009 - April 2010

System architect and lead software developer for redesign of rachaelraymag.com, the website for Everyday with Rachael Ray magazine. Also included complete customization and integration of Community Server into the site.

System architect and lead software developer for redesign of birdsandblooms.com, including integration of Community Server into the site.

Software developer for redesign of familyhandyman.com website. Included standard Asp.Net development as well as custom widget development for Telligent Community 5.0 (formerly Community Server)

Senior Software Engineer, Reader’s Digest Association

April 2007 - January 2009

Asp.Net Development

Projects included:

Redesign of TasteOfHome.com website

Full integration of Community Server with multiple existing websites and forums

Led project to change source control systems to Team Foundation Server and also implement a build and release process

Software Engineer, RR Group/Edgenet

March 2005 - March 2007

.Net Development (both Windows Applications and ASP.Net)

Projects included:

Enhancement projects and support for several Home Depot websites and internal applications

Website usability and functional testing for several contracted websites built and hosted by RR Group

Enhancements to deck designing software to support online updates and price quotes

Development of six proprietary brands website for Home Depot, using CSS and ASP.Net themes to provide a single code base for the six completely different sites. Content management application to allow client to maintain website content within the framework of the individual sites.

Fully designed and implemented online Pharmacy to Nursing Home patient comparison application using ATL Server. Re-engineered system in ASP.Net using C# for easier enhancement opportunities.

Served as architect for web-based portions of several large projects and numerous medium to small projects, including the Pharmacy project above. In addition to serving as a part time developer on these projects, responsibilities included:

UML Design

Component and System Use Cases

Component, System and Integration Test Planning and Execution

Taking Business Requirements and determining the best possible solution. Then taking that solution back to the business sponsor and/or customers for approval

Served partially as a lead engineer, helping guide the other engineers on the project to make sure that they are working on the right things at a given time and also making sure that they finish on time.

Intranet Development in ASP and ASP.Net

EDUCATION

Milwaukee School of Engineering

Milwaukee, Wisconsin — 1997-2001

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

SKILLS

Visual C++ - Used exclusively for 4 years in college and used off and on since then.

Visual Basic – 5+ years of experience in both VBScript (for ASP) and Visual Basic 6.0. Limited experience with VB.Net

HTML – 21 years experience working with HTML.

CSS – 17+ years using CSS to build standards compliant and accessible websites

C# - Approximately 17 years of experience with C#. I began working with C# as soon as Microsoft released it as a beta. I have been using C# as a production development tool for approximately 4 years. I have mainly focused on using C# with Asp.Net, but have built several standard applications as well.

Asp.Net – Approximately 14 years working with ASP.Net using C#. Extensive experience with Asp.Net MVC

JavaScript – 19+ years of experience using JavaScript for websites, integrating it with ASP, PHP, and ASP.Net

Microsoft SQL – 19+ years working with Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) on a regular basis.

Sitecore - Developed a large site using the Sitecore 6.5 and upgraded it to 7.0. Upgraded another large site from 6.4 to 7.2 and have made several small and medium scale updates to additional sites.